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in, love starts overflowing you.
That's what everybody is seeking and searching for, but everybody is preventing it from happening. That's the greatest dilemma that every human being has to pass through: we desire something but we destroy the bridge that can take us to it.
Anand Heiderose. Anand means bliss, heiderose means a rose.
What is "heide"? -- heather?... A desert rose? Good. That's far better! To be a rose in the desert is far better.
The world is almost like a desert. It is very difficult to be a rose here. A thousand and one difficulties are in the way, but those difficulties have to be accepted as challenges. Those difficulties have to be used as stepping stones. Then they don't hinder you from growing; on the contrary they help. And it is because of so many difficulties in life that ultimately one comes to a ripeness, richness.
If there were no difficulties in life there would have been no possibility of growth. The whole situation of existence is helpful to growth. All its misery, all its agony, all its turmoil -- everything helps the consciousness to grow, to become more alert, to become more aware, to become more integrated. And that integration is the inner rose. When that rose blooms one has become a Christ or a Buddha. Let that be the goal.
Deva Ron. Deva means divine, ron means power -- divine power. All power is God's. Life is his. He breathes in you; he circulates in your blood he beats in your heart: he is all in all. But we have created a very false phenomenon, the most dangerous lie -- the ego -- and we pretend that "The power is mine, I am powerful." The idea that "I am powerful" disconnects you from the totality, from the whole.
A sannyasin has to learn that "I am not; I am not at all, so how can I be powerful? I am a nobody, just a vehicle of some unknown energy -- call it God, tao, or whatever one wants to call it." It has no name, but to know that "I am just an emptiness and some infinite energy flows through me" is to become a sannyasin. That is real initiation: when you disappear and only God is.
The Shadow of the Bamboo
Chapter #9
Chapter title: None
9 April
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